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aberration of starlight
Adrastea
airglow
albedo
altazimuth coordinate system
Amalthea
Ananke
Andromeda Galaxy
anomalistic year
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artificial satellite
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ecliptic coordinate system
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meteor shower
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Miranda
nadir
nebula
Nereid
neutrino astronomy
neutron star
New General Catalog
node
North American Nebula
nucleosynthesis
nutation
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observatory
occultation
Ophelia
opposition
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parallax
parsec
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photosphere
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precession of the equinoxes
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sidereal time
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Telesto
terrestrial planet
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transit
transit instrument
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tropical year
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ultraviolet astronomy
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universal time
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stony meteorite
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torus
ablation
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spring tide
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radiogenic
chondrite
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Dawn
effective temperature
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meteoroid
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gnomon
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continuum
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minute
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radiant
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spectroscopic binary
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moment of inertia
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wise
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Refractive index
Astronomer
Excitation
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International Cometary Explorer
steady-state theory
Anglo-Australian Telescope
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general theory of relativity
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Delphinus
Frame of Reference
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relaxation time
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sulcus
time zone
centre of gravity
Coriolis force
emission
globular cluster
nautical almanac
Newtons law of gravitation
umbra
Wormholes
autocorrelation
boundary layer
gain
Infrared Space Observatory
Mie scattering
Norma
eon
ET
event horizon
Great Red Spot
Hubble constant
spectrometer
Titius-Bode law
Tucana
atmospheric extinction
atmospheric refraction
carbonaceous chondrite
gibbous
opacity
resolving power
vernal equinox
near
neat
UKIRT
augmentation
Metonic cycle
photographic emulsion
soar
abundance of elements
cosmography
entrainment
linear
mixing ratio
radian
sunset
visual binary
geocentric
interference pattern
open cluster
prominence
sickle
Vela
continuous creation
mascon
Point Source
double star
Mars Global Surveyor
New Horizons
patera
stellar association
afterglow
Kuiper Airborne Observatory
scattering
superstring theory
agile
first point of Aries
first point of Libra
gravitational lens
Huygenian eyepiece
Infrared Astronomical Satellite
macula
Ophiuchus
planetary geodesy
Rayleigh criterion
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
Beta decay
Cosmic Background Explorer
fossa
libration
terra
twinkling
mounting
spheroid
thermal radiation
totality
armillary sphere
epicycle
Mathilde
photographic magnitude
blue Moon
Cassini Division
Cepheus
galactic nucleus
orbital elements
Ramsden eyepiece
Serpens
Spitzer Space Telescope
chopper
globule
grating
reticle
setting
apparent magnitude
apparent solar time
Chandler wobble
crater counting
grooved terrain
Lunar Highlands
Mars Pathfinder
Setebos
silicon burning
altazimuth mounting
Anthropic Principle
equatorial mounting
lunar parallax
rampart crater
scintillation
Seyfert galaxy
absolute magnitude
astronomical
cryovolcanism
gravity assist
hadron
helium burning
iron meteorite
Lepus
Maksutov telescope
martian canals
monochromator
oxygen burning
shield volcano
stereo
tidal friction
anastigmatic
Baldwin effect
Extrasolar Planet
graben
heliocentric
meridian circle
planetary nebula
spiral galaxy
supercluster
waxing
galactic halo
Lunar Orbiter
megaregolith
oversampling
Starburst Galaxy
synodic month
Tethys (astronomy)
tidal heating
visual magnitude
wrinkle ridge
circumpolar
Closed Universe
equation of time
Esa
homogeneity
Lunar Module
optical double
polar
Puck (astronomy)
saros
shatter cone
Zond
collimation
colour index
culmination
exposure age
flash spectrum
limb darkening
lobate scarp
Newtonian focus
octahedrite
polarimetry
protoplanet
rille
small circle
solar nebula
telescopic
Tycho
degeneracy
First Contact
flickering
Impact Crater
nebulosity
Open Universe
Overshooting
quadrupole
UT
achondrite
anisotropy
Geographos
leap second
outgassing
phase angle
spallation
stishovite
tidal theory
Torino Scale
wavenumber
crown glass
deep space
Monoceros
steradian
Age of the Universe
Chicxulub
chondrule
Cosmic Ray
coude focus
dwarf star
giant star
protostar
Residuals
Rhea (astronomy)
rima
zone time
aeronomy
Analemma
Antennae
Coalsack
cryostat
halation
Hale-Bopp
red dwarf
Redshift
bow shock
deferent
isochron
isotropy
p-process
r-process
s-process
Stephano
Toutatis
apsides
Phoenix (astronomy)
aubrite
eucrite
Draper
E layer
facula
fall of meteors
guider
Kepler
Planck
B star
canale
chasma
colure
COSPAR
Gaspra
Venera
Cetus
COROT
epact
lacus
linea
palus
regio
Rosat
Vesta (astronomy)
A band
ASCA
AGK
FK
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